Corruption Lady is a junkie now

Reviewing my shiny new set of Fulton County Indictment Cards, hearing a TV analyst piercingly call events “corruption colliding with consequences,” I thought of a nice old lady I encountered in 2016. Well, not exactly nice. Gray-haired and petite, she certainly looked less than deadly. That was before she saw literature with which I had…

OMG: actual voter fraud!

Well, Republicans: Now you can tell the bleeding hearts at the Brennan Center for Justice how wrong they are. Named for the late Justice William Brennan, fiercely dedicated to voting rights, the center calls the modern-day wave of Republican “ballot security” and “voter ID” measures a “solution in search of a problem.” Meaning the “problem”…

No greater crime than this

A central ruse underlying Donald Trump’s criminal scheme is that when all was tallied and every court challenge shot to bits, he sincerely believed he won. Bull-oney. Trump telegraphed his Big Lie long before. He was prepared to mislead the nation as the loser. True to the falsehood, on Election Night even before the networks…

How not to get indicted

The day Donald Trump got arraigned for attempting to overthrow the U.S. government — actions by which he triggered a deadly riot and raked in millions of dollars on a calculated lie — I went to the store for a celebratory donut. Celebratory? Wasn’t it a “sad day”? A “somber day”? “Tragic”? “Sobering”? Terms like…

Better a bad dog than a mad dog

Brace yourselves for the House inquiry. Joe Biden’s dog did it again. Commander, the first family’s young German shepherd, has been teething — on Secret Service agents. Deliverer of this news: Judicial Watch, a right-wing entity that exists to suck blood out of equal justice wherever found. Not surprisingly, right-wing media sank its fangs therein. A…